Welcome to our department
Gender sensitivity and protection against violence on excursions
Studying Geography
Meet our research groups
Welcome to our department
Gender sensitivity and protection against violence on excursions
Studying Geography
Meet our research groups

Department of Geography at the University of Bonn

The Department of Geography at the University of Bonn is part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and belongs to the Department of Earth Sciences. Our research and teaching covers almost the entire spectrum of Geography, which guarantees the necessary breadth in an interdisciplinary study program.

Once a semester, the Department of Geography publishes a newsletter on current developments and events.

News
Ikram Zangana successfully defends dissertation
Ikram Zangana successfully defended his dissertation "From Efficient Geomorphological Mapping to Semi-Automated Landslide Detection." The dissertation was supervised by Prof. Dr. Lothar Schrott (University of Bonn) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jan-Christoph Otto (University of Salzburg). Congratulations!
Obituary: Prof. Dr. Klaus Fehn
Prof. Dr. Klaus Fehn passed away on 28 June 2026, shortly after his 90th birthday. He was born in Munich on 14 March 1936. Although he was never a member of the Department of Geography at the University of Bonn, he maintained close ties to the institute in many respects and had a lasting influence on its development. 
Teaching Mobility Visits Strengthen the ERASMUS+ Worldwide Partnership with Tanzania
As part of the ERASMUS+ Worldwide programme, the Department of Geography at the University of Bonn welcomed several guest lecturers from Sokoine University and Mzumbe University in Tanzania in May and June 2026. The visitors contributed to teaching activities at both undergraduate and graduate level on topics including critical geography, water and natural resource management, rural development, and decolonial approaches to knowledge production. The visits fostered intensive academic exchange and further strengthened the existing partnerships in teaching and research.
Paper on the Decolonization of Institutional History Published in the Journal of Historical Geography
The paper “Reframing disciplinary memory” documents the participatory process of critically addressing colonial continuities at the Department of Geography at the University of Bonn. At its core is the question of how institutional memory culture can be renegotiated in the context of decolonization.
Events
Graduation Ceremony and Summer Festival 2026
Meckenheimer Allee 166, ...
02:00 PM
As in previous years, the end of the summer semester will be celebrated with a Summer Festival jointly organised by the Department of Geography and the Student ...
Koloniale Zukünfte: Geographie zwischen Imperium und Imagination
Meckenheimer Allee 166, ...
05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
BGG-Vortrag Die Verflechtung von Geographie und kolonialen Projekten ist konstruktiv für moderne geographische Wissensproduktion. Kolonialgeographisches ...
Vortrag zu ehemaligen Forschungsarbeiten in Pakistan
Geographisches Institut, ...
05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
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Int. Lecture on Cultural Geography: Polarising Divisions
Geographisches Institut, ...
05:15 PM - 06:15 PM
International Lecture on Cultural Geography: Polarising Divisions - Placing ‘Anti-Gender’ Controversies, Effects and Resistances Further information ...

The Department of Geography has a rich history that spans more than 140 years of teaching and research. It is the largest and one of the most distinguished Geography departments in Germany.

It has 15 independent research groups that encompass a wide variety of geographical topics. Our research is organized around eight research clusters within five main research focus areas: Water Futures, Risk and Security, Governing Transformations, Inequality and Justice and Land Surface Dynamics. Geomorphology, Hydrology, Development Geography and Remote Sensing are just a few examples of our wide choice of research clusters in Human and Physical Geographies. Each of our research fields is managed by one or more professors in the department. This enables us to provide our students with a high quality and unique education, especially if they wish to choose an interdisciplinary or applied study-approach.

Entrance of the main building in summer
© Friederike Pauk/GIUB

The Department of Geography on Social Media

The Department of Geography is active on different social media portals. Please use the following links to get directly on our profiles.

Instagram

We post all news from the department on teaching, events and the everyday life at the department on Instagram. You can also find the best pictures from our field trips here.

Bluesky

We publish the latest news from the work of our research groups (e.g. new projects & publications, exciting talks) on Bluesky, and are connected to important institutions and researchers.

YouTube

We have different videos on YouTube: introductions of the department and certain groups within, videos from field trips, helpful tips on literature research in our library and much more.

Links to other important institutions

Directly connected with the Department of Geography at the University of Bonn are the Fachschaft Geographie, the Geographical Society of Bonn and the Geoverbund ABC/J.

Student Council Geography 

The Fachschaft Geographie is the officially elected Student Council Geography and represents all students at the Department of Geography.

Geographical Society of Bonn

The Geographical Society of Bonn (BGG) is a registered, non-profit association. The most important goal of the BGG is to present findings of geographical research to the general public in easily comprehensible way.

Geoverbund ABC/J

The Geoverbund ABC/J is the geoscientific network of the Aachen-Bonn-Cologne/Jülich research area.

Contact

Address of the Department

Contact

+49 (0)228-737290

geographie@uni-bonn.de

Address

Meckenheimer Allee 166

53115 Bonn

Germany

Administrative Office, Anne Kathrin Jansen

Contact

+49 (0)228 73-7290

gf-assistenz-geographie@uni-bonn.de

Address

Meckenheimer Allee 166

Room 0.011 (104a)

53115 Bonn

Germany

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Respect each other! Respect boundaries - create safe places

The Department of Geography has set itself the task of enabling everyone to work together on an equal, non-discriminatory, respectful and trusting basis. Further information can be found on the page Protection against violence.

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